Toy Bond car going for gold

A rare gold-plated version of one of the most popular toys of the 1960s – a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 Corgi car – is expected to fetch well over £2,000 at auction this week. Around four million of the die-cast miniatures were made, complete with ejector seat, retractable machine guns and rams, but only a tiny few gold-plated examples were produced for VIP visitors to the factory, and it's thought that fewer than 10 are still in existence.